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A provocative court case may prove whether or not a man's recurrent nightmares were evidence of surgery malpractice or of an anesthetic hangover.
Health & Medicine

Man Claims He Woke Up Partway Through Spine Surgery

A horrifying thought!

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robots and Machines

The Best Grow Lights of 2023

Grow vegetables, herbs, and other beneficial plants all year long with high-quality grow lights.

By Timothy Dale

Amid rumors of a huge OpenAI deal, Microsoft has announced that it's laying off a whopping 10,000 employees as the economy continues its downturn.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Fires 10,000 Employees as It Invests in AI

This timing is unfortunate.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Freshman congressman and alleged serial liar George Santos will soon be sitting on a committee charged with overseeing NASA. 
NASA

Serial Liar George Santos Tapped For Committee in Charge of NASA

He's not beating the allegations, but that doesn't seem to matter much.

By Noor Al-Sibai

There's no surviving the fireball of a nuclear bomb, but beyond that, there are certain spots indoors where you can try avoid the destructive shockwave.
Science & Energy

New Study Shows Where You Should Hide to Survive a Nuclear Attack

"People should stay away from these locations and immediately take shelter."

By Frank Landymore

College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT
OpenAI

College Student Caught Submitting Paper Using ChatGPT

The paper was way too coherent and well-structured.

By Victor Tangermann

Experts found that language-modeling AIs like ChatGPT will likely make it easier and more efficient than ever to generate massive amounts of misinformation.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts Warn of Nightmare Internet Filling With Infinite AI-Generated Propaganda

"For society, these developments bring a new set of concerns: the prospect of highly scalable — and perhaps even highly persuasive — campaigns by those seeking to covertly influence public opinion."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists have uncovered a macabre potential explanation for why a specific subset of exoplanets haven't been observed yet.
Off-World

Scientists Offer Ghoulish Theory for Why There Are No Planets of a Certain Size

This would explain a lot.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of artists are suing Stable Diffusion, an open-source AI image generator, for unfairly using their art to train its AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Artists Sue Stable Diffusion and Midjourney for Using Their Work to Train AI That Steals Their Jobs

"Today, we’re tak­ing another step toward mak­ing AI fair and eth­i­cal for every­one."

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers have captured radio signals originating from atomic hydrogen from an extremely distant galaxy.
Off-World

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Emanating From Extremely Distant Galaxy

Fascinating.

By Victor Tangermann

Taking erectile dysfunction drugs may not just help you get your mojo back — it may, per a new study, be linked to lowered risk of heart problems, too. 
Studies

Dick Pills May Be Linked to Lowered Risk of Heart Attack, Scientists Say

This certainly is titillating.

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Cryptocurrency

Harvard Finance Professor: Crypto Is “Magical Thinking” That “Infected Capitalism”

"It is the minimizing of constraints and trade-offs in favor of techno-utopianism and the exclusive emphasis on positive outcomes and novelty."

By Frank Landymore

Developer Miles Zimmerman shared now-viral images of a demonic house party dreamed up by AI image generator Midjourney on Twitter over the weekend.
Artificial Intelligence

We’re Fascinated by These AI-Generated Party Pics… Especially Their Demonic Mutations

"Thanks for the nightmares."

By Victor Tangermann

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, the world's most populous country's population declined in 2022, the first time in 60 years.
Future Society

China’s Population Just Dropped for the First Time in 60 Years

It has begun.

By Victor Tangermann

According to a former ranking FTX exec, the exchange's founder and disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried — or SBF for short — was a terrible boss.
Blockchain

Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Horrible Boss, Former Exec Says

Addiction. Gaslighting. Hostility. Manipulation.

By Noor Al-Sibai

Unchecked development and climate change are coming to a head in Arizona, where an entire neighborhood has been cut off from Scottsdale's water supply.
Climate Change

Arizona City Cuts Off Water Supply for Entire Suburb

"We're really hoping we don't go dry by summer."

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A fan who used OpenAI's ChatGPT to pen a song mimicking the style of Nick Cave was in for a surprise when the man himself responded in anger.
Artificial Intelligence

Nick Cave Absolutely Furious Over AI That Wrote a Song in His Style

"This song sucks."

By Noor Al-Sibai

The popular tech site has employed the use of AI for its financial explainer articles under the byline of "CNET Money Staff."
Artificial Intelligence

CNET Is Quietly Publishing Entire Articles Generated By AI

"This article was generated using automation technology," reads a dropdown description.

By Frank Landymore

Writers and journalists across the industry weigh in on the upsetting news that CNET has been using an AI to write its financial explainers.
Artificial Intelligence

Internet Horrified by CNET Secretively Publishing Articles Written by an AI

"This is just the beginning."

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has a new text-to-speech AI that can clone your voice, tone and all, from just a quick three-second snippet of audio. It's called VALL-E.
Artificial Intelligence

New Microsoft AI Can Clone Your Voice From Three Seconds of Audio

Okay, that's impressive.

By Maggie Harrison Dupré